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Les mastabas de l'ancien empire: Fragment du dernier ouvrage de Auguste Edouard Mariette (French Edition)

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The last "ouvrage" of that greatest archaeologist, the fore-father of scientific French Egyptology, Auguste Mariette, has been out of print since a long time ago, and this is a real pity. The "editio princeps" goes back to 1888 and was the result of gathering together the field-notes taken by him during his study-tours around the great cemeteries of Memphis, especially at Saqqara. The records taken from many tombs, since then damaged, deteriorated or lost and never refound again, make of this work an indespensable source of information for anyone interested in the archeology and history of one of the most glorious periods of Pharaonic Egypt,i.e., the Old Kingdom. Edited as manuscript notes and sketches, it also stands as an example of how the earliest researches undertook their job, not always in the better recording conditions. It is only strongly desired that one printer would undertake the (hardly looking as a quite profitable) task of reprinting this title, even if only for the sake of keeping alive a memorial for the illustrious French archaeologist. But I'm sure it would also be a good bussiness in the end: such a "classical" book surely will atract the attention of many buyers: I include myself.